Zumbi: The last king of Palmares - Marc Adam Hertzman & Flavio dos Santos Gomes

Get to know the story of Palmares, an autonomous settlement founded by people escaping slavery in Brazil in the 1600s.
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In the 1600s, an expansive autonomous settlement called Palmares reached its height in Brazil. It was founded and led by people escaping from slavery, also called maroons. It was one of the world’s largest maroon communities, its population reaching beyond 10,000- and its citizens were at constant war with colonial forces. Marc Adam Hertzman & Flavio dos Santos Gomes tell the story of Palmares.
Lesson by Marc Adam Hertzman & Flavio dos Santos Gomes, directed by Mateus Moretto, Visorama.
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[@artiemanable]

Some of the quilombos survive to this day. They enjoy legal rights that are similar to those offered to indigenous communities. Of course, these rights are routinely trampled upon by government officials and private agents. Good to know that this story is receiving some attention from audiences outside Brazil. Well done!!!

[@hatsuharuboi]

yes, there are hundreds of quilombos dispersed through the territory... and much more that have ceased to exist...

[@d00mf00d]

They mentioned that in the video.

[@Polka_254]

There is a bust of Zumbi in Liverpool Museum, England. This is how I came across this story.

[@hpevangelista]

I'm Portuguese and unfortunately this part of history is not taught at school in Portugal. Thank you.

[@Sun-God2]

Most of the terrible things that Portugal did it's not show in schools

[@rollingjaguar]

Of course it’s not...

[@leocremonezi]

Thank you TED-Ed for sharing educational content about the Brazilian history! We love your videos! Um abraço do Brasil 🇧🇷👊🏻

[@itacom2199]

🇮🇹🤝🇧🇷

[@ro.54]

Hugs from Holland to Brasil and Italia, - we miss(ed) you in Qat_ar

[@Sebastianbertolotto1880]

It's amazing to know that part of history of ours Brazilians brothers. Here in Argentina "quilombo" means "trouble" or "problematic situation", like "allá hay quilombo" "there is trouble/problematic situation". Maybe it's meaning comes from this Quilombo.

[@ioim1985]

Just figure that out after this video i think is the most reasonable meaning for such a word. que quilombo!!!! and actually it makes sense although don't know for sure.

[@akni3547]

It probably was the white slavers who started using the word that way

[@felip3442]

Maybe racism is a big factor in how quilombo (a social organization made by blacks) became a synonym of trouble, of a problematic situation

[@muhammadyusufalimov8641]

I have also interest to know Brazilian history, I'm from Uzbekistan,but always keen on history,i have never been to in Brazil but i have a dream to Go to Brazil as a tourist

[@felip3442]

@@muhammadyusufalimov8641 you can learn a lot from Brazil, it's a big and diverse country !

[@elton.g.Coutinho]

As a teacher, I usually use ted-ed videos in my classes. As a Brazilian teacher, I feel happy to see some educational content about my country. Valeu!

[@bit0494]

Como é bom ver o TED-ED falando sobre a história do Brasil. Abraços das terras tupiniquins!! 🇧🇷

[@tasmiatahia01]

As someone who fell asleep through history, I'm so glad I found Ted-Ed as I have learnt so much, and it's inspired me to research further and learn more about parts of history I was never exposed to. The narration, the beautiful animation, everything about these videos are epic.

[@clararetamozo4632]

as someone who grew up in Brazil, I can't thank you enough for making this video. This has taught me way more about Palmares than all HIstory lessons I've had on Brazil's colonial period.

[@Anas7ergun]

Same thoughts here, never heard of Ganja Zumba when learning about Palmares on school.

[@joroc]

Didnt you know that's where the word "zombie" came from?!!!

[@YouGuessIGuess]

@@joroc Here's the info I found about the origins of the word, from Wikipedia (which cites sources) The English word "zombie" was first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi".[3] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the word's origin as Central African and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi (god) and zumbi or nzumbi (fetish). Some authors also compare it to the Kongo word vumbi (mvumbi) (ghost, revenant, corpse that still retains the soul), (nvumbi) (body without a soul).[4][5] A Kimbundu-to-Portuguese dictionary from 1903 defines the related word nzumbi as soul,[6] while a later Kimbundu-Portuguese dictionary defines it as being a "spirit that is supposed to wander the earth to torment the living"

[@joroc]

@@YouGuessIGuess obviously the mythical creature is african but first passed through Brazil zumbi before reaching USA zombie

[@igorversiani9732]

I'm truly amazed by the attention to detail in this video. Not only a famous painting of Domingos Jorge Velho clearly inspired the image of clashes between maroons and colonizers, but also the main Atlantic traffic routes were correctly depicted. Impressive.

[@jennifervan75]

This was so interesting to learn about. I knew about Maroons because Suriname has a similar history but I had no idea about Palmaristas

[@ITSTHISEASY]

Now I know why my uncle’s favorite football team is called Palmares!!! My wife is from Londrina and I have visited 4 times. I love Brazil and the culture and my new family. I also am learning Portuguese with Duolingo and it’s going great. Thank you for this awesome information.

[@ernestogiusti5802]

It´s Palmeiras, different word 😄

[@joaopedrobuenogomes7381]

Wow random londrinense in a Ted-ed video what a coincidence! Greetings from Londrina!

[@bit0494]

Is Duolingo a good way of learning Portuguese?

[@ITSTHISEASY]

@@bit0494 Hi, Oi, Well for me it is because it is fun to do and I have learned so much using it. I am not fluent yet but I definitely understand way more than I use too. My wife is from Brazil and didn’t speak English when she arrived. She used podcasts as well that spoke slowly to help. I plan on using them as well but needed a base of understanding first. You can’t go wrong using Duolingo and I pay for the yearly subscription as well.

[@ITSTHISEASY]

@@ernestogiusti5802 Desculpe, kkkkk. Well I didn’t know it was spelled differently. It’s also interesting though that the kings last name is Santos. Another football team that my uncles don’t like. They love Palmeiras.

[@henrique9498]

Amei , sou brasileiro e moro no nordeste do Brasil , temos total respeito por esse marco na nossa formação histórica .

[@Ricvictors]

Brazilian history is fascinating, and Palmares is only one of the many incredible chapters. Thank you, TED-ED, for making my people’s history known around the world 🇧🇷❤️

[@maniknath6854]

I give my respect to these people who didn't quitted and fought for their freedom and for the freedom of their future generations till their last breath. 🙇🙌

[@hamsterclamper]

Incredible coincidence: my Brazilian wife was just telling me this story over lunch😊

[@danielgoncalves3739]

Estou surpreso, e muito feliz, de ver finalmente algo da história brasileira sendo mostrada e representada pela Ted-Ed, um canal que eu acompanho há meses. Já assisti vários vídeos de vocês, eu simplesmente amo o conteúdo de cultura, educação e conhecimento de diversas categorias que vocês trazem para milhões, ou melhor, bilhões de pessoas todos os dias. Sucesso sempre.

[@israeldeoliveira3468]

Como alguém que cresceu num município pequenininho do Nordeste, Redenção, conhecido por ser o primeiro do País a reconhecer livres àqueles mantidos escravos por causa da cor da pele, e por estudar em uma Universidade Federal que celebra a luta de heróis como os dos Palmares fico muito feliz em assistir a este vídeo!

[@earthling_parth]

Wow, I have never even heard about Palameres and Quilombos. All the strength to the Indigenous and free people living there and honoring their past leaders and rebels 🇧🇷❤ Thank you Ted-Ed for telling us about these brave warriors.

[@GabeHowardd]

Interesting how imagery can affect our perception of history I remember learning this back in school and I couldn't picture the whole thing... With all these animations it made me realize the importance of this event... Thank you! Vou dar mais valor a Zumbi dos Palmares de agora em diante, que cara corajoso!

[@acjazz01]

@@leomraifur vaza bolsotario.

[@othvsy]

i am brazilian and im so happy to see one piece of the brasil history here, its great!!!

[@massabranca]

Great lecture! One slight precision would be the fact that contemporary quilombos have various origins and together with caiçaras and indigenous peoples, they form what we call "traditional communities". Beijos de Arraial do Cabo / Brasil!

[@michelipires2240]

In my hometown, in Minas Gerais, november 20th is a holiday.

[@camilogonz9062]

Maroon towns also arised in Colombia where they are called Palenques, along with the Brazilian Quilombos and tons of other things they are the living remnants of the African Diaspora

[@oliviaantoine8244]

Thanks TED-Ed for always making history more interesting and fascinating. I love sharing your videos with my students

[@ndrk993]

I love ted ed videos

[@DrOTheTeenDoc]

Thank you for sharing this untold and incredibly important piece of history!

[@h2amster328]

animations and illustrations are always amazing with ted ed videos

[@abhijitborah]

Thank you for bringing this part of history to our knowledge. I loved the visual presentation style a lot too.

[@alejandrotoro9676]

Funny coincidence I actually just started reading a comic that is about topic actually, so if anyone is interested the book is called Angola Janga by Marcelo D'Salete

[@3vivk]

Thanks for the recommendation!!

[@maryocecilyo3372]

Eu quero

[@arcie3716]

Learning about the Palmares was so interesting. Glad you guys made this video..

[@cantlosethis]

thanks for sharing this very important part of my country's history.

[@erenyeager1708]

i'm Brazilian my grandmother come from quilombo in region south in Brazil

[@Catlily5]

Thanks for teaching this.

[@kaitlynsandoval4734]

addisons narration is my favorite!

[@K__kelly]

Always love ted Ed history

[@reneetmp]

Thank you for this

[@pedrosaune]

As a brazilian, this is just some of the fascinating stuff we have here. Most "gringos" have no idea about the complexity of our culture (and i'm not talking about samba, soccer and plants, lmao). Very happy Ted Ed has done this, thank you

[@flamah10n]

wow! amazing! I have heard this history many times before in School here in Brazil, but like this, it is much more absorvable.

[@guilhermeduarte4753]

There're a lot of quilombos in Brazil; I loved watching this video reminded my hometown

[@akni3547]

It's very nice that you guys talk about Brazilian history. There is so much fascinating stuff from brazilian, yo uguys should do video about capoeira. Or Serra Pelada, the brazilian gold rush during the 80s

[@doyouguysnothavephones8967]

Fascinating. Never learned this in school.

[@smallspace7]

It is just great to know about these brave people 👏

[@kamaaiiyah2948]

Dang! I didn't know Maroons were also in Brazil. Am from Jamaica and one of our national heros is Nanny of the Maroons. Awesome stuff, thank you!

[@felipefreitas9142]

Eu que sou brasileiro, não conhecia essa história! Thanks Ted-ED !!

[@clarkkelly5568]

É MENTIRA

[@felipefreitas9142]

@@clarkkelly5568 aparenta ser

[@matheusGMN]

porque é do nordeste, e a educação brasileira em história nas escolas tem claramente um viés sudestino, digo isso porque morando em Recife, a capital da confederação do equador, tudo que tinha no meu livro de história era meia página sobre o assunto, talvez estudando história no nível superior se saiba mais a respeito, mas se for depender das escolas atuais nunca que descobriria isso

[@mrnarason]

bro, how do you not know. I'm not even brazilian and I know about it

[@nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415]

@@clarkkelly5568 Mas tu jura, jura?

[@joilsonro1]

Muito bom! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@hengratha2558]

See u again Addison Anderson ♥️ Waiting too long to hear your voice again.

[@terrydonnelly2524]

There are many heroes that confronted colonizers. We have some today too. You have to stand up to bullies.

[@tommyhunter5558]

This makes me happy to here how a people came together and welcomed each other with open arms and fought along side each other hand in hand a place where tryanny had no place

[@gabrieledacunzo3390]

Amazing story

[@Lotschi]

wow, a great story!

[@diogobigateixeira9106]

Eu vi zumbi fugir com os negros pra floresta Pro Quilombo dos Palmares, eu vi

[@Bamdeidz]

More videos on Brazil please!

[@lerneanlion]

I always love this kind of story! And I am surprised there are movies' adaptation about this one and the other one about the swamp's community yet.

[@MWhaleK]

Fascinating!

[@fabio_prates8546]

cool! Here in Brazil, we studying a little bit about Zombi in the History classes.

[@tommytalks77]

So, @Netflix , when is season one out?

[@elianesantoscabral3271]

Excelente

[@OPGamerTheGod]

Good vid

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

How am I just learning now that there used to be an entire civilization made by escaped slaves?

[@profbarbaramorais]

Hey, you should do a video about the Canudos community!

[@chimpazoo1143]

The only mistake in this video was depicting the Brazilian Northeast as a lush humid jungle instead of a savannah

[@knights9692]

Nice

[@LeprosuGnome]

Brazil's educational system and most school history books approach the colonial history from the point of view of the colonialists. They are shown as the influential figures, heroes and discoverers, we are told the stories of the challenges they faced when encountering natives and of their fight for independence from the portuguese crown. Slavery of natives and africans is spoken about too, but never connected to the colonialists, altmost as if it were a natural thing, impossible not to happen. The Brazilian people take the back seat in history lessons, they're rarely refered to. I'm ashamed to have learned more about the Quilombos from a foreign KZbin channel than in my entire life in Brazilian schools.

[@coe3408]

Claro que aprendeu mais no vídeo. Não aprendeu nada na escola mesmo...

[@marcellocorrea7168]

Fun fact: the etymology of the English word "zombie" comes from the name of the Brazilian rebel leader Zumbi dos Palmeiras

[@maryocecilyo3372]

Não sabia

[@augustoveiga5152]

Absolutely fabulous as always. It’s wonderful to see that Brazilian history is being shared with an intelligent point of view based on historical information. Love it!

[@cheesezees1423]

Hope you guys do Nanny of the maroons from Jamaica soon

[@shimamakaepea5781]

Make a video about king sekhukhune

[@Natasha-ew6qu]

NGL, I would read comic/graphic novel versions of Ted Ed talks if it was done like this.

[@WalnesMosi]

Nganga means "expert" in the Kikongo language. The Portuguese corruption of the meaning was "fetisher." It could also be derived from -ganga, which means "medicine" in Proto-Bantu. He came from the Kingdom of Kongo in Central Africa. That’s why names are so powerful and has strong meaning until white folks started to disconnect us.

[@reem3266]

The amount of spam in this comment section 😮 anyways great job TED! Thank you for bringing this story to light

[@marcelafairchild9300]

Finally! Something about Brazil Maybe you could make a Ted-Ed about Lélia Gonzalez She would be another great addition to your videos

[@henrique9498]

I am from Brazil and I love yours movie Ted Ed . Perfect description of our history . Thanks very much. Abraços do Brasil.

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

nice

[@kawonewilliams1949]

The scourges of colonialism will never cease. The violence committed by the monsters calling themselves explorers is deplorable.

[@hviii7452]

Salute…

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Brilliant people.

[@mandelleli]

Antes que os homens aqui pisassem Nas ricas e férteis terraes brazilis Que eram povoadas e amadas por milhões de índios Reais donos felizes Da terra do pau-brasil Pois todo dia, toda hora, era dia de índio Pois todo dia, toda hora, era dia de índio Mas agora eles só têm um dia O dia 19 de abril Mas agora eles só têm um dia O dia 19 de abril 🖤🇧🇷

[@prof_dos_anjos]

I see Brazil I "thumbs up"

[@horizont6172]

Brasil 🇧🇷

[@joroc]

Now a video about Dandara dos Palmares🤫

[@goldenvulture6818]

Yet to this day when individuals hear or read the words "confederation", "confederate" & "confederacy" they usually only think of the short-lived nation Confederate States of America

[@calista_cal]

What's the name of this narrator..? His voice is so soothing and calm..🌸😌

[@paulovictorbarros3822]

He narrates most stuff on TED-Ed and really does have a soothing, but firm, voice. I believe his name is Addison Anderson.

[@opaulodetarso]

Viva o Brasil!

[@officialiicon]

This is where capoeira comes from

[@derkaiser420]

I am glad you covered this. Being a history buff I did not know this story but I appreciate the new knowledge. Being a Devil's advocate I would have just allied with Portugal and just lived knowing the Europeans would probably betray you and just kept a secret army. It is also nice that you mentioned the women because they are an important part of every society that has ever existed. And I also like your history content because you don't skew in any modern political direction. The thing about the past is everyone was just like us, living their lives and taking anything they can get or trying to make their lives better. We are all humans after all. Anyway, rant over. Good video and animation, keep it up.

[@matheusGMN]

knowing the Portuguese, they never turn down a chance to make profits, so a betrayal was very likely to happen once they let their guards down, or the Portuguese got some reinforcements, but, this was kinda the norm for all colonial powers, just saw recently how the US expanded into Indian country by Knowing Better, and oh boy they basically went back on the treaties they signed at every opportunities for centuries, it baffles me that they would keep signing treaties at that point

[@lucridgard3305]

that moment when you realize that someone who lives outside your country knows more about it than you do.

[@hatsuharuboi]

I think one of the authors of this video is Brazilian...

[@strange_and_magnificent]

This just shows that not all history is written by the victors.

[@ro.54]

Lots to learn bout the Amazon still to com', dearest TED-Ed & fans

[@AndreMiranda]

That map location in the beginning of the video is not at the actual place where it was located…

[@user-zb3dh9se2r]

Great glory for freedom fighters!!!)))

[@zenebean]

That's a rough choice, either fighting a relentless powerful foe or selling out your own people. I doubt the Portugese would have held to the bargain very well in the long term anyway. Empires are just like that.

[@muhammadyusufalimov8641]

Who knows about how to increase listening degree?at IELTS exam! Please share your experiences it is very important and thank you for ted talks team,this program alsa very helpful to increase my listening and to be inform about history events!!

[@lmcfigs4874]

Real hidden leaf village

[@afrinaut3094]

Don’t forget Dandara.

[@adrianorastelly4699]

Being a Brazilian I can say with absolute certainty that Brazilians definitely love to be mentioned in videos like this. Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷

[@bellezavudd]

There's a movie about this called "Quilombo" It's from the 80s, made by Brazilians.

[@bellezavudd]

@@OnNicegramTedEd1 Lie lies and more damned lies. Go away lying bot.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Oh I’m excited to learn about Brazilian history and ancient beliefs

[@lucasmarques5645]

this is some Game of thrones stuff wow

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I doubt there can be any true peace as long as oppression persists, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@NavajoNinja]

Bugs Bunny goes down 2 notches. "What a maroon!"